The Bayeux tapestry is being loaned to United Kingdom

Visited it when on holiday there a couple of times. It is enormous.

escaped

I've just thought it might be my rushed translation earlier, because les mites are also moths in French. That would make more sense.

Ah!

So should we sprinkle peppercorns round the edges of our wool carpets?

In conjunction with the discussion on the Bayeux Tapestry, this dramatisation was bloody good, starting last night and on iplayer.
To be recommended if you enjoy following history from various angles.

www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/m0024pyz/king-conqueror

I just knew it!
We're being fleeced to go and see the Bayeux Tapestry in the UK. £33 a ticket, with a couple of cheaper options if you want a quick glance before closing time.
It was only 10 or 12 euros when I saw it last year in France.

To be fair, we've got to claw back some of the transportation and insurance costs, but the pesky French must be laughing at us looking after "their" (??) chef d'oeuvre while they rebuild their museum in Bayeux!

I have seen it twice in Bayeux, several years apart, and found it fascinating.

I am thinking of going, must get myself sorted

GrannyGravy13

I am thinking of going, must get myself sorted

I think tickets go on sale July 1st.

* The OP has incorrect dates.

My passport has expired and, at 80, I'm really not going to pay over £100 for a new one. We never got round to seeing the taoestry on any of our trips to France so I will be quite happy to pay £33 to see it now.

MartavTaurus

I just knew it!
We're being fleeced to go and see the Bayeux Tapestry in the UK. £33 a ticket, with a couple of cheaper options if you want a quick glance before closing time.
It was only 10 or 12 euros when I saw it last year in France.

To be fair, we've got to claw back some of the transportation and insurance costs, but the pesky French must be laughing at us looking after "their" (??) chef d'oeuvre while they rebuild their museum in Bayeux!

Yes, only the British would offer to bear the enormous costs of looking after a French exhibit for them while they improve their museum 😂
Especially as it portrays our defeat at the hands of the Normans, those pesky French Vikings.